Mop



Sept. 11, 1945 COATS 2,384,602

MOP

Filed Aug. 17 1942 Patented Sept. 11, 1945 MOP Paul B..Coats, Chicago, Ill. Application August 17, 1942, Serial No. 455,081

1 Claim.

This invention relates to scrubbing and cleaning devices and more particularly to mops and wringers or drainers therefor. One object is to provide a mop that may be used as a wet mop or as a dust mop and that is efiicient for scrubbing, washing walls and woodwork, washing automobiles, for washing ceilings, windows and for general cleaning of a like nature. A further object is to provide a mop that when used dry will pick up lint, ashes or like material from floors, carpets, rugs, etc.

A further object is to provide a mop that is practically self-cleaning, that may be used to remove dirty water from floors after scrubbing, that may be wrung practically dry without touching the hands to the mop head, and that is durable, eflicient and handy in operation.

A still further object is to provide a mop that is light in weight, strong and eflicient in use, very easy to keep clean and sanitary, inexpensive to manufacture, and that is streamlined in design permitting its use readily in out-of-the-way and ordinarily inaccessible places.

A further object is to provide a mop including a drainer that is adjustable to fit pails and like containers of different sizes. With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this patent and in which- Fig. 1 is a View in perspective of the mop proper, a portion of the handle being broken away.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view through the mop head on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of the mop yarr. and tape for securing the same to the mop head.

Fig. 4 15a top plan view of the drainer employed.

Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the drainer takenon the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view through the drainer on the line 6-5 of Fig. 5.

Fig. '7 is a view of the drainer in elevational perspective, and,

Fig. 8 is a view of the mop and drainer on a reduced scale, the drainer being shown applied to the rim of a pail.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The mop comprises a head preferably oblong and streamline in shape provided with a plurality of tufts or strands of yarn preferably arranged in longitudinal rows; a handle for the head; and a drainer shaped to snugly receive the head with yarn and provided with drain slots to vent the water pressed from the yarn, the drainer being provided with adjustable hooks for securing it to the rims of pails of various sizes.

The elongated or oblong streamlined mop head is preferably formed with a convex top face I connecting the longitudinally extending parallel lateral sides 2, 3, the side 3 being somewhat wider than the side 2, and with a fiat lowermost face 4 in which are formed two parallel spaced substantially U-shaped channels 5, ii of identical structure extending from end to end of the head, said head being formed with the taperedsocket for the handle 8'.

Received in each channel and extending transversely thereof are a plurality of closely associated strands of lint-proof mop yarn 8 preferably sewed or otherwise secured to apiece of tape 9 upon which between the strand ends is received a strip of material ID, of hardwood or the like, the assembly being securely held in place by fasteners ll passing therethrough and into the head, the ends of the strands 8 normally extending outwardly substantially two inches from the head. In scrubbing or washing a surface the head is dipped into the water in the usual manner and the wet yarn then applied to the spot to be cleaned. With the handle removed the mop may be used for cleaning bath room fixtures and for other purposes. When the mop is dry or moistdry it may be used for dusting, cleaning curtains and drapes, etc.

For wringing water from the mop when the yarn is saturated a wringer or drainer i2 is employed preferably formed of wood, the wringer consisting of a stout fairly thick fiat sided bed portion i3, the ends thereof being beveled as at It and i5 in opposite directions or toward each other, and the side walls l6, l1 rising upwardly from said bed forming a trough-like member open at,

its ends, the relatively adjacent faces of said side walls being beveled divergently from the bed, the outer faces of said walls being in the plane of the corresponding sides of the bed, or straight up from said bed. The ends of the side walls are beveled toward each other.

Extending transversely of the top face of the bed are a plurality of spaced parallel recesses i8 which at their ends extend entirely through the bed to form slots I9, one slot at each end of a recess. Registering with the several slots l9 are the vertical recesses 20 in the walls l6, l1

the upper ends of downwardly from which wall recesses are spaced the upper edges of the walls,

said recesses continuing to the lower wall face 2| are the substantially U-shaped hooks 22, 22

the upper ends thereof being bent reversely for engagement with the rim of a pail 23, said hooks being disposed parallel with the beveled ends of the bed. The bevel of the ends of the bed and the position of the hooks 22, 22 is to permit the application of the hooks to the circular rim of a pail as shown, the drainer being disposed inside the pail at the through the bed slots and wall recesses will run into the pail. The hooks are adjustable in a rotary manner in their slotted bed portions to permit their attachment to pails having rims of different diameters.

When the mop yarn is saturated with water and it is-desired to wring it out the mop head is disposed in the drainer while the operator bears down on the handle and imparts a slight back and forth or rocking movement to the handle so that the yarn will be pressed against the bed and squeezed and wrung out between the rails l6, l1. A very efllcient wringing may be imparted to the mop yarn in this way-in fact it being almost possible to wring the same completely dry. After use the head may be cleaned perfectly by boiling in water containing a cleaning chemical or in other suitable manner.

The drainer or wringer is applied to the pail with the shorter wall I! next to the pail rim.

l8 and from The space between the walls l8, I1 is such as to snugly receive the water-saturated mop yarn so that pressureupon and oscillation of the head a will effectually squeeze the water out of the yarn top thereof so that water passing the tape 9 and strip every strand of yarn to the head as the strands are all sewed to the strip.

ainst the bed and walls. It will be noted that ll positively secure each and As many modifications of the invention will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art I do not limit the invention to the specific means or apparatus herein illustrated and described.

What is claimed is: In a mop, an elongated streamline head having an overall smooth convex top face defined by parallel longitudinally extending lateral sides and a fiat lowermost face, one of said lateral sides being wider than the other, an upwardly directed socket in said head at a point of juncture of said top face and said wide lateral side; said lowermost face being formed with two parallel channels having substantially parallel walls, strands of mop yarn taped together substantially midway between their ends, the taped portions being positioned in said channels, yarn securing means extending longitudinally of said channels and beneath said taped portions, fastening means extending through said first mentioned means and said taped portions and into said head, the ends of said strands extending downwardly from said first means and forming closely associated strand portions in parallel rows extending from end to end of said head, and a handle in said socket.

PAUL B. COATS. 

